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Red shift: Study gauges salamanders' sprint speed as connected to their color

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Red shift: Study gauges salamanders' sprint speed as connected to their color
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If the eastern red-backed salamander has an equivalent of Usain Bolt, Sophia Zaslow is determined to find it. Since her undergraduate years, the Binghamton University doctoral student in biological sciences has conducted sprint trials on the common salamander species, to determine aspects of its physiological fitness. Zaslow's article on her undergraduate research titled "Intra-morph body coloration may correlate with performance in the eastern red-backed salamander" appears in the Canadian Jour

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